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Tough Love for Mediocre White Guys yesmagazine.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yesmagazine.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The move upstate was a choice my husband and I made under duress. Newly married, we were getting kicked out of our 1,800 sq ft, ramshackle, under-market East Village loft, and couldnât find so much as a studio in Flushing for as little as weâd been paying. We thought of ourselves as dyed-in-the-wool New Yorkers, the kind of people who, in no time flat, could conjure the fastest subway route between two points; who knew exactly where to find the perfect quick, cheap bite â and a bathroom to pee in â in any given neighborhood; who were on nodding terms with the anarchists weâd pass each day in Tompkins Square Park; who kept a mental running list of all the movies currently showing at Angelika Film Center, and knew which underground theater within it was most affected when the subway rumbled by. Initially, the idea of leaving the city behind felt like chopping off a limb. But losing our home after a drawn-out housing court case helped loosen our emotional grip. After a year of lawyers, and infighting among our tenantsâ association, and the relentless losing battle against gentrification, moving upstate seemed like it offered a refreshing change.
FILA Releases The First Of Five Extended Sizing Collections For 2021 forbes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forbes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Southern California Review, and the anthology This Is The Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017). Bacote’s talk, titled “Against Erasure: Reclaiming Our Stories,” will be March 16 at 6 p.m. via ZOOM/YouTube. The event is free and open to the public. In 2018, Ploughshares published her essay, “The Other America,” about police brutality and the failure of community policing in New Haven, Connecticut. Her current book project chronicles the lasting impact of the illegal drug trade on her family and community. The WSU Visiting Writers Series brings noted poets and writers of fiction and nonfiction to campus for creative readings, class visits, workshops, and collaborative exchanges across intellectual and artistic disciplines. Bacote’s visit is co-sponsored by WSU Pullman English Department, WSU Pullman College of Arts and Sciences, WSU Vancouver Office of Equity and Diversity, WSU Vancouver Library, WSU Vancouver Office of Academic Affairs, and WSU Vancouver College of Arts and Sciences.
I feel too old and overqualified for my job and want to quit: Dear Prudence podcast. slate.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from slate.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Recommended by Jen Manion These two books are among my favourites – I teach them all the time and they’re also really accessible. One is Transgender History by Susan Stryker (Seal Press, 2017), which is an introductory overview of the transgender rights movement in contemporary US society. The other is probably lesser known, but it’s called Queer Injustice (Beacon Press, 2011) and it was co-authored by historians, lawyers and activists. It’s a beautiful synthesis of queer history and experience in the US in relation to the criminal justice system. And part of what it does is capture a more diverse group of our communities’ experiences. But it also reminds [us] that, up until very recently, being queer was criminalised: people were incarcerated for their love, and that it’s actually just a very new phenomenon that homosexuality does not subject one to criminalisation, even in modern times.
The author in photographer Heidi Harris' studio, Atlanta, 2019. In 2015, Glamour magazine awarded me the title “Hometown Hero” for the state of Georgia. They flew me to Brooklyn for a paid photo shoot and commercial in partnership with eBay in 2016. When the ad aired on YouTube, the audience had a lot to say. I thought it’d be homophobic insults, but not at all! They didn’t like my size. Commenter after commenter dropped gems like: “You’re fat.” “Ugly.” I can’t tell you that didn’t hurt. It did. I cried. Who wouldn’t? But it didn’t make me love my body any less.
by Ijeoma Oluo To be clear, there never was and never will be a time when Ijeoma Oluo’s new book Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy Of White Male America (Seal Press) isn’t relevant. But reading history-rich analysis of white male supremacy and its toxic repercussions from the author of So You Want To Talk About Race on the same week that the living personification of white grievance stormed the U.S. Capitol was like finding the key in the back of a fantasy novel: Suddenly, the labyrinthine gibberish started to make sense. Throughout the book, Oluo lifts the hood on institutional racism and sexism, breaking down everything from how white backlash to Reconstruction influenced widespread housing discrimination—and, in turn, racial wealth gaps—to online “brocialists” and their allergy to female power. (Hint: White male identity politics are still identity politics.) One by one, Oluo holds up parts of these complex and insidious engines, demonstrating for readers how each piece, as she puts it, “works by design.” One-star reviews of